Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wheels of Poseidon


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  21:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Wheels of Poseidon

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Non-notable name for Bioluminescence phenomenon. Very few results on google not derived from wikipedia. Porphyro (talk) 17:44, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
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 * Redirect to bioluminescence or Delete. No indication this neologism has spread notably beyond the person who coined it, and a redirect would take those few familiar with the term to the page with information on the subject, but of the Google search results, if you eliminate the Wikipedia mirrors, most of what remain refer to a (non-notable for Wikipedia purposes) folk-metal musical group and not the oceanic phenomenon, so a redirect may not be appropriate. Agricolae (talk) 19:29, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. Definitely a neologism, but I'm not seeing usage in sources to indicate it would be a redirect term people would actually be using as Agricolae mentioned. Kingofaces43 (talk) 21:26, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
 * comment It was also used in Clarkes's 1971 novella "A Meeting with Medusa" but apparently just never caught on. I don't have a strong opinion as to whether the redirect is justifiable. Mangoe (talk) 16:37, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete I've found enough WP:RS to possibly support a section in Bioluminescence on "phosphorescent wheels", but not this 1967 neologism for it. See this report, this report, this paper, this discussion in Nature, and this, and even this French meto wikilog of sighting, and this report from the US Naval Oceaonagraphic Office and this from the National Institute of Oceanography in Surrey. But I still don't think this particular article merits retention. (I'll pop these refs in the Talk page for Bioluminecence in case someone ever wants to pick up on them.) Nick Moyes (talk) 00:10, 12 March 2018 (UTC)


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